Our favourite math doodler Vi Hart convinced Kenny Pittenger to redraw Sponge Bob's pineapple. Check out SB's new and improved digs with mathematically correct spirals! You can see Vi Hart's letter to Nickelodeon on her web page.
Check this out! It's called Fakebook, and it's a site that allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.You can use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on! Have a browse. It makes for interesting reading!
Doodling in Maths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK5Z709J2eo - Infinity Elephants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&feature=fvwrel Sakes + Graphs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlv5Aeuo_k&feature=relmfu Sick Number Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJzrmS9UfY&feature=fvwrel Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx5D09s5X6U&feature=relmfu Snakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdyociU35u8 - Dragons
http://kennypittenger.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/called-out.html
You can see Vi Hart's letter to Nickelodeon on her web page.
If you're interested in Escher, check out this cool article and break down of some of his works. It shows you how he does it!
http://im-possible.info/english/articles/escher_printgallery/
Check this out! It's called Fakebook, and it's a site that allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes.You can use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on! Have a browse. It makes for interesting reading!
http://classtools.net/fb/home/page
Shift Happen's 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZjRJeWfVtY
We watched this today as part of our intro to CHANGE.
Erik Johansson's Impossible Photography http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_johansson_impossible_photography.html
Rachels Sussman's oldest living things on our planet
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/ted-talk-rachel-sussman-photographs-the-worlds-oldest-living-things-video.html
This is simply amazing!
Scale of the Universe-prepare to be mind blown
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012
Nathan shared this with us today. It's pretty mind blowing. Microsoft's vision for the future. What do you think?
http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/